Senior Java Developer Jobs in England

Senior Java Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Java Developer salary in England is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 552 424
Rank change year-on-year -26 -128 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 273 412 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.46% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.50% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 220 358 850
10th Percentile £59,250 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,125 £120,000 £126,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% - +25.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 81,072 82,732 127,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,480 52,417 75,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,669 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,519 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Java Developer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Java Developer in England

Senior Java Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +19 159 £100,000 +2.56% 21
South East +47 64 £70,000 - 5
North of England +39 26 £60,000 -14.29% 3
North West +4 17 £69,250 -23.06% 2
South West -32 16 £60,500 -12.00% 3
Yorkshire +83 7 £55,000 -8.33%
Midlands -12 6 £68,750 +14.58% 1
East of England +6 4 £58,750 -30.88%
West Midlands -3 4 £68,750 +14.58% 1
North East -5 2 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East Midlands -14 2 - -
Senior Java Developer
UK

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 273 (100.00%) Java
2 131 (47.99%) AWS
3 128 (46.89%) Spring
4 110 (40.29%) Finance
5 88 (32.23%) Microservices
6 85 (31.14%) JavaScript
7 84 (30.77%) Agile
8 83 (30.40%) Kubernetes
9 78 (28.57%) Docker
10 70 (25.64%) SQL
11 69 (25.27%) Spring Boot
12 64 (23.44%) Full Stack Development
13 63 (23.08%) AngularJS
14 61 (22.34%) Hibernate
15 52 (19.05%) TDD
16 47 (17.22%) Software Engineering
17 45 (16.48%) Banking
17 45 (16.48%) DevOps
18 42 (15.38%) Social Skills
19 40 (14.65%) Mentoring
20 38 (13.92%) React
21 37 (13.55%) Kafka
21 37 (13.55%) CI/CD
22 36 (13.19%) Low Latency
23 34 (12.45%) Fintech
24 33 (12.09%) Git
24 33 (12.09%) Computer Science
25 30 (10.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 28 (10.26%) Multithreading
26 28 (10.26%) SDLC

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.13%) Confluence
2 11 (4.03%) Apache
3 10 (3.66%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.93%) JBoss
4 8 (2.93%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (2.20%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.37%) Drupal
8 1 (0.37%) GemFire
8 1 (0.37%) Jetty
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) nginx
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 131 (47.99%) AWS
2 25 (9.16%) Azure
3 20 (7.33%) Serverless
4 16 (5.86%) SaaS
5 10 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (3.30%) GCP
7 8 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (2.20%) GitHub
9 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.73%) dbt
9 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.56%) Internet
2 2 (0.73%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 24 (8.79%) MySQL
3 20 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.59%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.47%) Flink
7 4 (1.47%) Tick Data
8 3 (1.10%) Big Data
8 3 (1.10%) CouchDB
8 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.73%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.73%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.73%) Dremio
10 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (12.09%) Git
2 23 (8.42%) JUnit
3 19 (6.96%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.23%) JIRA
5 10 (3.66%) Maven
6 7 (2.56%) Selenium
7 4 (1.47%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.73%) GitLab
8 2 (0.73%) Gradle
8 2 (0.73%) JHipster
9 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 110 (40.29%) Finance
2 45 (16.48%) Banking
3 42 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 23 (8.42%) Front Office
5 17 (6.23%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.93%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.56%) Police
9 7 (2.56%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.83%) Marketing
12 4 (1.47%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.37%) Advertising
14 1 (0.37%) International Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Law
14 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (46.89%) Spring
2 69 (25.27%) Spring Boot
3 63 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 61 (22.34%) Hibernate
5 38 (13.92%) React
6 37 (13.55%) Kafka
7 25 (9.16%) RESTful
8 22 (8.06%) REST
9 20 (7.33%) Node.js
10 18 (6.59%) JMS
11 13 (4.76%) CSS
11 13 (4.76%) HTML
11 13 (4.76%) Web Services
12 11 (4.03%) SOAP
13 10 (3.66%) Apache Camel
13 10 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (3.66%) GWT
14 9 (3.30%) jQuery
14 9 (3.30%) JSON
15 8 (2.93%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.49%) Equities
5 14 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.66%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.93%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.83%) Derivative
11 4 (1.47%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.47%) PropTech
12 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.10%) NHS
12 3 (1.10%) Wiki
13 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.73%) Kindle
13 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.23%) Microservices
2 84 (30.77%) Agile
3 64 (23.44%) Full Stack Development
4 52 (19.05%) TDD
5 47 (17.22%) Software Engineering
6 45 (16.48%) DevOps
7 40 (14.65%) Mentoring
8 37 (13.55%) CI/CD
9 36 (13.19%) Low Latency
10 34 (12.45%) Fintech
11 33 (12.09%) Computer Science
12 28 (10.26%) Multithreading
12 28 (10.26%) SDLC
13 27 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (8.79%) Scrum
15 21 (7.69%) Integration Testing
16 18 (6.59%) BDD
17 16 (5.86%) OOD
17 16 (5.86%) Web Application Development
18 15 (5.49%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 273 (100.00%) Java
2 85 (31.14%) JavaScript
3 70 (25.64%) SQL
4 25 (9.16%) Python
5 13 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.20%) C#
7 6 (2.20%) Perl
8 2 (0.73%) C++
8 2 (0.73%) Go
8 2 (0.73%) Ruby
8 2 (0.73%) Scala
9 1 (0.37%) Bicep
9 1 (0.37%) PHP
9 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (9.16%) Degree
2 19 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.23%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.73%) PhD
6 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.66%) QA
2 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 78 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 83 (30.40%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.59%) Ansible
3 6 (2.20%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Istio
4 1 (0.37%) Kibana
4 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (6.96%) Google
2 12 (4.40%) Oracle
3 10 (3.66%) WSO2
4 5 (1.83%) Sybase
5 4 (1.47%) Facebook
5 4 (1.47%) Vertica
6 3 (1.10%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.73%) Apple
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.37%) SAP